For the fifth edition of the first pages operation, which combines the department of Aude, CAF and MSA, a work of children’s literature will be offered to all newborns and children adopted under three years of age. “The idea is to participate in the reduction of inequalities, it is our responsibility. And to bring parents and children closer who are far from the libraries recalled Maria Conquet, departmental advisor delegated to culture.
“The benefits of reading shared with children from an early age are no longer to be demonstrated, adds Élise Palus, the director of CAF. This participates in the awakening of the child, develops the imagination, creates strong links with parents, through sounds, voice and colors. The more the child is invested in the book, the easier he will have the task in school”.
The selection committee, bringing together representatives from CAF, MSA, departmental infantile maternal protection services and the departmental library, has made its choice among ten authors. It was Isabelle Ricq, with “Another Plouf”, who won the majority of the vote. This album dramatizes the bath time and celebrates the crazy imagination of children, capable of transforming a bathtub into a vast ocean populated by a thousand and one sea creatures. Each family who welcomed a child born or adopted in 2024 will receive a letter inviting them to withdraw the album in the many distribution places. In Belpech, it is at the media library.
